Car-fender.



P. E. DEEMER & E'. W. KDREP.

GAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 30, 1908.

Patented June 21, 1910.

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UITE SATES r n c FRANK E. DEEMER AND EDWARD W. KORFF, OF BROOKLYN, NEWYORK; SAID DEEMER ASSIGNOR TO SAID KORFF.

CAR-FENDER.

Application fded November 30, 1908.

Specication of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK E. DEEMER and EDWARD W. KORFF, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andState of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inCar-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to car fenders and its object is to provide thefront wheels of a car with fenders which follow the track in advance ofthe wheels to prevent the latter from passing over any person or objectlying on the track and to prevent the person from being thrown under thetruck. A. netting is stretched from one fender to the other and isadapted to catch any one on the track and save him from danger.

These and other details and objects of the invention will be more fullydescribed in the accompanying specification, set forth in the claims andillustrated in the drawings, wherein- Figure l is a side elevation ofthe forward end of a car with our invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is afront view of the car beneath the platform. Fig. 3 is a vertical view ofone of the fenders.

The device is secured to the front of the track 5 of the car and one isused on each side thereof before the wheels and directly over thetracks. It consists of a post 6 secured to the truck by means of thebracket 7 or any other suitable means and having at its lower end across bar 8 extending beyond the post on each side and playing in a slot9 in a tube 10. This tube envelops the lower end of the post and itslower end is forked to carry a small flanged wheel 11` which is adaptedto run on the track. The bracket 7 carries a horizontal arm 7 with aring at its outer end to encircle the tube and brace it and at the sametime to allow of its vertical movement.

Surrounding the post and pressing upon the upper end of the tube is aspring 12 which forces the tube downward and causes the wheel l1 toalways follow the rail. In case it is desired to remove the wheel fromthe rail the tube is forced upward and a pin 13 run through the tube andone of the holes 14 of the post to retain the tube and wheel in itselevated position.

On the forward face of the tube at its lower end is placed a fender orshovel l5 with a slight side inclination to throw an object outward fromthe track, and unit-ing the two fenders is a netting or similar means toprevent objects from passing beneath the car.

The pins 8 and their slots accomplish a double object, one being tolimit the play of the tube and the other being to prevent its rotation.Braces may be used to render the device more rigid in places where theservice of the fender is rough and heavy and other arrangements of t-heparts and modifications of same may be adopted without departing fromthe essential features above referred to.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. In a car fender, the combination with a post rigidly attached to thetruck of a car, of a tube carrying a wheel and sliding on the post, ashovel, a pin preventing the rotat-ion of the tube, and a second pin tolock the wheel from contact with the rail.

2. In a car fender, the combination with depending posts, of tubessliding thereon, springs to press the latter downward, wheels at thelower ends of the tube, means for limiting the movements of the tubes,shovels on same, and netting connecting the shovels.

In testimony whereof, we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

FRANK E. DEEMER. EDWARD W. KORFF.

Witnesses:

JAMEs F. DUHAMEL,- MAE W. CLINTON.

